Knitting box



Feb. 12, 1957 MALTANIELSEN KNITTING BOX Filed March 6, 1953 FIG.2

- Inventor GERDA MALTA-NEILSEN Jo J n4 Attorney KNITTING BOX GerdaMalta-Nielsen, Kirkland Lake, Qntario, Canada Application March 6, 1953,Serial No. 340,793 1 Claim. (Cl. 242-146) The present invention relatesto improvements in a knitting box and appertains' particularly to onedesigned to contain a plurality of spools arranged in a novel manner.

An object of the invention is to provide a knitting box for a pluralityof spools of wool in which the individual spools may be arranged in thedesired order and from which a spool or spools may be readily selectedand/or removed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a knitting case that isespecially helpful in knitting fancy, multicolour patterns such as fairisle and the like, having an auxiliary and rotatable spool containerthat facilitates unwinding threads that tangle as the knitting proceeds.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a wool holdingdevice for use in knitting, of the nature and for the purpose specified,that is characterized by a structure simple, light and compact;efiicient in use; and capable of manufacture at reasonable cost wherebythe same is rendered commercially desirable.

To the accomplishment of these and related objects as shall becomeapparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts as shall behereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

The invention will be best understood and can be more clearly describedwhen reference is bad to the drawings forming a part of this disclosurewherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the severalviews.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one preferred embodiment of theinvention; and

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section as taken on line 2-2 of Figurel, and showing the position of spools of wool therein.

The device here shown consists of a multiple compartment box A which Icall the spool holder and an auxiliary spool container B rotatablymounted thereon which I designate the spinner. In using this woolholder, as in fair isle knitting, the. spools are wound in accordancewith instructions in the knitting book, substituting spools for balls,and arranged in the spool holder in the order called for in the patterninstructions. When the border of the garment, usually knitted in themain colour, is completed, the spools bearing the Wool of the two colorsto be interwoven are selected from the holder and placed in the spinnerand as the knitting proceeds these two threads wind with every stitch.At the end of that particular two colour portion the spinner is revolvedto untangle the threads, then any unwanted spool is returned to theholder and may subsequently be replaced in the spinner by another. Atthe end of a row, the knitting should be load right side up on top ofthe device and the whole box turned 180 degrees so that the spinner ison the near side. Thus in complicated multi-coloured patterns, the Woolfrom different spools is kept neat and orderly and the continualtwisting is easily and quickly untangled.

In knitting, colored yarn from several balls may remain attached to thework piece at different points to be taken up further as the workprogresses. Two or more colors can be knit at the same time but whensuch two colors are used together they wind with every stitch and twistupon themselves. It is accordingly one of the purposes of the presentinvention to provide means by which. these colors can be readilyuntwisted. This can be effected by allowing the color yarns to pass oneunder the other and by a spinning of the yarn about a vertical axis.also permitting the color yarns which are being worked to be movedlaterally of the Work piece, they can be replaced by other color yarnswithout entanglement from the yarns being replaced. The knitting yarnswill be car 7 ried in one container and separate from the main containerand the yarns not being used for knitting at that time. Two colors areoften knitted together at the. same time to get the desired effect andthe present devicewill serve to keep them separated from the othercolors while keeping the other colors available and untangled from eachother and ready to preplace either one or both of the two colors.

Referring now particularly to the illustrated form of the invention, itwill be noted that the holder A consists of an elongated rectangular boxhaving a front 1, back 2, ends 3, bottom 4 and an open top 5. It isdivided into ten individual compartments 6 by transverse partitions 7joined to and preferably formed integral with the front and back andbottom of the box. The compartments 6 are substantially square in endelevation and of a width to accommodate a'spool (as seen in Figure 2) infreely rotatable relation. To facilitate the removal of an individualspool, the top edge of each partition, and also of the opposite end ofthe box if desired, is of reduced height at the centre to provide adepression or passage 9 for gripping the spool. For most ordinaryknitting a wool holder of this design capable of carrying ten spools ofwool in juxtaposed and tidy coaxial arrangement will prove useful andadequate.

On such a compartmented, open top box however, to substantially increaseits utility, the spinner B hereinbefore mentioned is mounted. For thisreason, the rear wall 2 of the box is made of sufiicient width toinclude an inverted T-shaped groove 10 in the top edge thereof extendinglongitudinally of the box. The instant design being of molded plastic, aplug 11 is sealed in an end thereof to close the same, while to saveweight and material the underside of the thickened rear wall 2 of thebox is made hollow. Slidable in the groove 16 is an inverted T-shapedblock 12, the stem of which rises above the top of the box and on thisstem the spinner B is rotatably mounted by a pivot 13. This spinner B isan auxiliary spool holder in the form of an open-topped rectangular boxwith a partition 14, centrally depressed like the partitions 7, dividingit into two compartments of substantially the same size as those in themain holder A. It is free to rotate on its pivot 13 and to slide in thegroove 10 from end to end of the supporting box.

The spinner box has internal compartments the same size as thecompartments of the holder box and comprises side bottom and end wallsand a partition dividing the spinner box into the two compartments. Thesides of the spinner box will at all times be rearwardly spaced from thefront wall of the holder box so that the yarns in the holder boxcompartments can at all times be observed. The length of the box betweenthe end walls is less than the distance between the sides and thespinner box is sufiiciently offset from the front wall of the holder boxso that the spinner box may be swung to provide substantially full freeaccess to the yarn holder compartments whereby the yarn spools can notonly be observed at all i b t n e rem ed i o t nt riereaqe has; th

spinner box.

It will be readily apparentxthat in use this device, rettaining eachspool of wool in neatly. wound and immediately available condition, inprearrangedtorderand with provision for carrying certain selected spoolsin-the longitudinally slidable and rotatable spinner will prove of greathelp, "eliminatetrouble from tangling threads and result in the savingof considerable time and efiort, V

Fromthe foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, it willtbetman'ifest that a knittinglbox' is provided thatwill fulfil all theneeessary requirements of such a device, but as manychanges could be made in the above description and many apparently,widely difierent embodiments of the invention may be con;

structed within, the scope of therappended claim without departing fromthe spirit or scope thereof it is; intended that allmatters contained inthe said accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted asillustrative andnot in a limitative or restrictive sense.

Having thus described the invention, what I'clairn as new is: a V

A device for use inmulti-yarn knitting operations comprising anelongated rectangular-shaped open top compartmentedyarn holder boxhaving front, back, bottom and end walls, a plurality oflongitudinally-spaced vertical partitions extending between the frontand back walls and providing thereby a series of longitudinally-alignedopen top compartments, each compartment being adapted to receive a spoolof yarn, guideway means running parallel along-' the back wallthroughout the extent thereof and V rearwardly offset from thecompartments, a slide element movable along the guideway means, an;opentop twocompartmented auxiliary spinner hox having side, bottom andand a l and a sin le nas iest! ext nding. b twqa the sidewalls toprovide'two open top compartments lying between its end walls, saidspinner box pivotally connected to the slide centrally of its bottomwall'for free rotation about a vertical axis, said spinner box having i7 its sides when brought parallel to the front wall of the yarn holderbox rearwardly spaced therefrom in order 7 to have observation of theyarn spools in all of the compartments of the holder box and the lengthof the spinner box between the end walls being less than the. distancebetween the sides thereof and thespinner 'box' being 7 sufiicientlyoffset from the front wall of the holder compartment so that the spinnerbox may be swung sidewise to provide substantiallyfull free access tothe yarn holder compartments, whereby two selected yarns extending fromthe compartments of the auxiliary spinner box may be untwisted byspinning the same and passing the yarns one under the other and thespinner box. slid' from one end ofv theholder'box to the othento pickunselected :yarnsf Without interference from the other yarns.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS

